Letters to the Editors

Act your age, Brookridge

Editor: Re: Allowing school buses into subdivisions creates hardship, Aug. 6 letter to the editor from C. Paul of Brooksville:

Paul said to check the rules and regulations of a community. Well, for approximately 35 years, Brookridge was open to all age groups.

About three or four years ago, a group of people in Brookridge felt people younger than 55 were second-class citizens and changed the rules in midstream.

After school buses have driven on those roads for 35 years, they want to change things again.

Families moved into the area before it was a 55-and-older community. The people in the community that do not like children should offer to buy their houses or the community club (organization) should have to buy these people's homes and pay for moving, as they caused this problem by changing rules in midstream.

I wonder how many of these people in Brookridge would like their grandchildren treated like they're treating others. I don't live in Brookridge and would never want to live by them. By the way, I'm older than 60.
-- Horace Hall, Brooksville

Lighten up and let children wait for bus at clubhouse

Editor: Re: Brookridge wants to force out children, Aug. 11 letter to the editor:

I agree that children are being discriminated against. Is it safe to have the kids wait on the outside of Brookridge or High Point, where anyone has access to them -- rapists, child molesters, etc.? Or is it safer to have them wait at the clubhouse where it is not that accessible to these kinds of people?

I lived in High Point up until three months ago and have been putting up with the same nonsense about where the bus stop should be.

In High Point the middle school and high school kids get the bus at a back access road to High Point. How safe is that?

Last year they also wanted the little kids to have the bus stop there until all the parents complained (me being one), and they let the little kids stay at the clubhouse. Most of the parents stay with the kids there.

High Point even built a shelter for the kids to wait in bad weather for the bus. But the following year it was transformed to a shack for the garden club.

And how many kids have accidents in the pools? If they are in diapers, they are not allowed in. How about adults who have to wear Depends? Are they allowed in the pool?

My kids are all out of school now, but I have a grandson who deserves to be in a safe place waiting for the bus.

Things are so different these days. Still, kids deserve to be safe and away from harm's way. So why don't these communities lighten up on the kids?
-- Robin Jorgensen, Brooksville

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